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 Blacksmithing
Spinning
Tinsmithing
Traditional Timber Harvest
Oxen for Beginners
Workhorse Management
Breaking Ground for Planting
Water-powered Sawmill
Demonstrations and Farm Tours
Corn Husking and Barn Dance
Historic Preservation Internships
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How to Reach Us: |
Colin and Paula Cabot
7097 Sanborn Road
Loudon, New Hampshire 03307
Telephone: 603 435-7314 Email: Colin@Sanbornmills.org
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Our workshops are small, so reserve a
place early. We have four student forges for Blacksmithing. Tinsmithing
is limited to eight. Spinning is limited to six. Workshops
cost between $100 and $175 per day depending on whether meals are included. Accommodation
is $30 per night. Some materials may cost extra, too.
Please tell us if you’re interested in a particular workshop and we’ll
arrange a schedule to fit yours. Simply call us or e-mail us to
tell us your time preference and we’ll coordinate your availability with
that of others in order to fill up classes. |
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Beginning Spinning
Choosing a fleece, washing, carding, spinning on wheels and hand spindles.
Dilys Morris, Instructor |
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Intermediate/Advanced Spinning
Going beyond introductory spinning, using tools from around the world including drop, supported, and
lap spindles, and introduction to the Great Wheel.
Dilys Morris, Instructor |
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Traditional Blacksmithing (1)
Fire management, basic metallurgy, drawing, tapering, upsetting, bending, for simple tools and useful
implements.
Garry Kalajian, Instructor |
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Traditional Blacksmithing
(2)
Fire management, basic metallurgy, drawing, tapering, upsetting, bending, for
simple tools and useful implements.
Garry Kalajian, Instructor |
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Breaking Ground for Planting
Bob Crichton and Evelyn Pike will demonstrate plowing with mules on an acre of what has been a hayfield
for the past fifteen years. After picking rocks, harrowing, and adding organic compost
and manure, Tim Huppe will demonstrate planting corn with a single ox. |
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Tinsmithing for the Novice (1)
Layout, cutting, forming assembly and soldering using stakes, swedges and 19th century hand operated
machines.
Harry Kruppenbach and Clinton Pitts, Instructors |
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Traditional Timber Harvest
Sharpening, setting, swedging axes, crosscut and bow saws. Layout of felling for crosscutting. Cutting
timber, hauling logs with draft animals, twitch, scoot and bob sled.
DonQuigley and Matt Chagnon, Instructors |
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Timberframing
Building a small timber frame for an ice house, sap house, or feed mill using traditional and modern
tools.
Scott Carbonneau and Mark Boucher, Instructors |
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Traditional Timber Harvest
Sharpening, setting, swedging axes, crosscut and bow saws. Layout of felling
for crosscutting. Cutting timber, hauling logs with draft animals, twitch,
scoot and bob sled.
DonQuigley and Matt Chagnon, Instructors |
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Oxen for Beginners
Choosing a team and halter training, how to yoke, health and nutrition, hooking to equipment,
driving teams for work and show.
Tim Huppe, Instructor |
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Traditional Blacksmithing (3)
Continuing practice and more new techniques and challenges
Garry Kalajian, Instructor |
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Tinsmithing for the Not-so-Novice (2)
Progress from cookie cutters to coffee pots.
Harry Kruppenbach and Clinton Pitts, Instructors |
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The Smooth Side to the Horse
A turn of the century(1900) approach to workhorse management
Les Barden, Instructor |
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